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A galaxy as particle accelerator
3 Jul 2009
This release is available in German. IMAGE: The giant radio galaxy Messier 87 is located in our immediate "cosmic vicinity ", only about 55 million light years away. In the bright outflow of matter from the...
3 Jul 2009
This release is available in German. IMAGE: The giant radio galaxy Messier 87 is located in our immediate "cosmic vicinity ", only about 55 million light years away. In the bright outflow of matter from the...
China environmental phenomena monitored from space
3 Jul 2009
China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults in China to...
3 Jul 2009
China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults in China to...
Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, says Stanford study
3 Jul 2009
IMAGE: The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says “baa”. It’s the hair sheep, a less-hirsute version of the familiar woolly barnyard resident. A new study...
3 Jul 2009
IMAGE: The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says “baa”. It’s the hair sheep, a less-hirsute version of the familiar woolly barnyard resident. A new study...
Sheep shrink on Scottish isle as world warms, says Stanford biologist
3 Jul 2009
Wild sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta have been diminishing in size for over 20 years and now researchers have puzzled out why: it's the heat. Like wool socks run through the dryer, the sheep have shrunk. More precisely, the average size...
3 Jul 2009
Wild sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta have been diminishing in size for over 20 years and now researchers have puzzled out why: it's the heat. Like wool socks run through the dryer, the sheep have shrunk. More precisely, the average size...
New national genome center launched
3 Jul 2009
A new UK national genome centre is being officially opened today (3 July) by Nobel Laureate and genome pioneer Prof Sir John Sulston and the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk. The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) will further the UK's capacity in...
3 Jul 2009
A new UK national genome centre is being officially opened today (3 July) by Nobel Laureate and genome pioneer Prof Sir John Sulston and the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk. The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) will further the UK's capacity in...
Physical reality of string theory demonstrated
3 Jul 2009
String theory has come under fire in recent years. Promises have been made that have not been lived up to. Leiden theoretical physicists have now for the first time used string theory to describe a physical phenomenon. Their discovery has been...
3 Jul 2009
String theory has come under fire in recent years. Promises have been made that have not been lived up to. Leiden theoretical physicists have now for the first time used string theory to describe a physical phenomenon. Their discovery has been...
Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak
3 Jul 2009
Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey, BMJ online Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak, finds a study published on...
3 Jul 2009
Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey, BMJ online Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak, finds a study published on...
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